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I work at a similar bank. We have ~100 employees dedicated to mainly one regulator. There are hundreds of regulators worldwide. Of course there is some overlap

I work at a similar bank. We have ~100 employees dedicated to mainly one regulator. There are hundreds of regulators worldwide. Of course there is some overlap in functions so its not 100s*100 but... running a bank is a hard business.

GreedClarifies 3y ago
Banking in the modern age is a compliance business. It is strange and horrible that it is become like that, but that's where we are. More sectors than one would think are primarily compliance businesses.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y ago
  > It is strange and horrible that it is become like that, but that's where we are. Given that in very recent times we got to experience what happens when people handling money completely ignore regulations, I'm quite happy banks are "compliance businesses". Banks should be boring businesses focused on taking deposits, making loans and other variations of that sort of capital allocation. Whenever a bank talks about "new financial innovations!", run for the hills because it's invariably a way to separate customers from more of their money.
- octobus2021 3y ago
  When bank is about to go under due to some new esoteric product which _should_ work (like packaging risky debt into magically risk-free securities) but eventually doesn't, it is MY money that's going to be used to pay for the losses. Because the bankruptcy would be a "systemic risk to the economy". So you bet I want banks to be constantly audited to make sure they don't make any dumb bets which I will have to cover for.